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GET INTO THE GROOVE 

Aug 1, 2005

Contrary to many initial opinions, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX is not simply a groove-construction or accompaniment machine. Much more, it's a real-time...

KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM 

Aug 1, 2005

Anyone who has ever been in a band or any long-running music project can tell you that the experience is very much akin to a marriage. The similarities...

LEARN HOW TO MIX ALREADY 

Aug 1, 2005

The project-studio revolution may have given countless home recordists the ability to record and mix their own projects, but, unfortunately, there isn't...

Purring ALONG 

Aug 1, 2005

Apple's latest incarnation of Mac OS X, Tiger, is aptly nicknamed. Tiger is fast, efficient, lively and colorful. According to Apple's Website, Tiger...

Take It to a Pro 

Jul 1, 2005

Although the advent and proliferation of various quality digital audio workstations may have taken a toll on the traditional recording industry, that...

STOP YOUR SOBBING 

Jul 1, 2005

If you go to Amazon.com and check out the customer reviews of Ying Yang Twins' last album, Me & My Brother, you'll see an average of 3.5 stars. But when...

SURF'S UP 

Jul 1, 2005

With the ever-growing population of audio composition, recording, arranging and mangling software tools showing up on dealers' shelves, it can be difficult...

FINAL BOUNCE 

Jun 1, 2005

During the past decade or so, the ubiquitous DAW/sequencer/multitrack audio recording software has truly reshaped the recording landscape like nothing...

LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH 

Jun 1, 2005

We editors spend a lot of time figuring out ways to help you make music and forge a career in the industry. But we don't devote much attention to helping...

DIGITAL JIGSAW 

May 1, 2005

Now that you know all about analog cables and connections including some of the elusive TRS, XLR, TS and RCA words you're ready to move on to the other...

Finesse your vocal recordings with Apple Logic Pro 7 

May 1, 2005

Longtime users of Apple Logic know that the program just keeps getting better. What was once a confusing plethora of versions covering four different...

Flex Tone 

May 1, 2005

Imagine yourself as a fly on the wall at Abbey Road in the 1960s when Sir George helped four young Liverpudlian lads set the course for the future. In...

THE SWINGING PENDULUM 

May 1, 2005

Popular music seems to be in love with its decade-to-decade credibility struggle. It's a constant battle that moves from the picture of youthful, underground...

ALL UP IN ANALOG 

Apr 1, 2005

Back in the days when people walked 10 miles uphill in the snow to get to school, producers had far fewer jacks and cable types to fuss with. Now, a seemingly...

GET IT OUT! 

Apr 1, 2005

Listening to Casey Spooner talk about how much fighting and anger and stress went into recording Fischerspooner's latest album, Odyssey, I, Kylee, laughed...

THE GOOD FIGHT 

Apr 1, 2005

Have you ever had your confidence broken? Have you ever been so stressed out about making an album that you cracked open your knuckles on the vocal-booth...

MASTER of your UNIVERSE 

Apr 1, 2005

For musicians looking to sync a computer's tempo to live musicians, Circular Logic has the solution with its innovative InTime software. InTime listens...

Toying Around 

Apr 1, 2005

SoundToys, indeed: The plug-ins from the outfit formerly known as Wave Mechanics are precisely that a whole lot of fun and games. On the other hand, they...

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 

Mar 1, 2005

MOTU DESERVES SPECIAL RECOGNITION for consistently providing its users with the paddle necessary to continue the journey upstream. The most recent update...

A QUESTION TIME 

Mar 1, 2005

Timing is everything, so the saying goes. And in music production, it's definitely true. I don't know how many producers and engineers I've seen fussing...

REHEATED 

Mar 1, 2005

Once upon a time, there was 16-bit resolution, then 24-bit. Now, the world is tempted with 32-bit floating-point resolution. People once marveled at 44.1kHz...

THE WAITING GAME 

Mar 1, 2005

I, Erin Hutton, am a procrastinator. It's true. I admit it. But it's not like this is a new revelation. Procrastination has plagued me since I wrote my...

LEARN THE LESSER-KNOWN PERKS OF ABLETON LIVE'S WARP FUNCTION 

Feb 1, 2005

In the mid-1900s, flange effects were first made possible chiefly as a side effect of tape players' design and operation. With two tapes simultaneously...

MODERNIZED MIDI 

Feb 1, 2005

Despite the blinding speed of technological progress, 21 years after its birth, the MIDI standard is still heavily in use a testament to its strength...

DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF 

Feb 1, 2005

With any sort of creative endeavor, it's often difficult to separate the various processes and identify where the art stops and the craft begins and vice...


Avid Presents:
Remix Hotel Los Angeles
Dec. 4-6, 2008

Remix Hotel heads to SAE's L.A. campus for another weekend of music-production technology; industry panels; and appearances by Danja, DJ Babu, J-Rocc, Squeak E. Clean, Sid Roams, DJ Shortee and more. And RHLA 2008 adds a new programming component: video production. You won't want to miss it—register today!

REMIX RESOURCES

Download PDF files of glossaries, charts and mixing tutorials to hang up in your studio as quick-and-easy references for your recording process.

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